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A Belated Awakening: National and International Responses to the Internal Displacement of Kurds in Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Bilgin Ayata  and
Deniz Yükseker
Bilgin Ayata
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Deniz Yükseker
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Koç University
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Internal displacement has replaced the flows of border-crossing refugees as the major form of forced migration across the world in the past two decades. International organizations seek to have a central role in providing assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) although this phenomenon comes under the traditional realm of state sovereignty, in contrast to the refugee regime, which is part of international law. The evolving international IDP regime has triggered policy and scholarly debates about various aspects of state responsibility and international assistance. On one hand, when states fail to provide protection to the displaced, the decision to take international action is often selective and depends to a large extent on the balance of geopolitical interests of powerful donor states. On the other hand, extant international humanitarian assistance practices also face criticism for having created new modes of power over displaced groups.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 32 , Spring 2005 , pp. 5 - 42
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